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Health/Life Sciences

‘The Fight Is In Us’ blood plasma campaign deploys Microsoft bot in search of COVID-19 antibodies

A coalition of institutions from life sciences, technology and philanthropy launched a new campaign called “The Fight Is In Us,”… Read More

This Seattle startup just raised $1.1M from Vulcan, others to help hospitals care for COVID-19 patients

Vulcan Capital and other Seattle-area firms invested in a $1.1 million round for MDMetrix, a Seattle startup that helps hospitals… Read More

COVID-19 weekly deaths drop another 40% in Seattle area, cases reach lowest total in two months

Seattle and King County reported 15 deaths from COVID-19 during the past week, down 40% from the week before, while… Read More

Assembling coronavirus test kits

After crises and confusion, health officials are closing the coronavirus testing gap

Ten days after Washington Gov. Jay Inslee took the Trump administration to task for failing to send enough supplies for… Read More

Healthcare giant Roche acquires Seattle DNA sequencing startup Stratos Genomics

Publicly-traded pharmaceutical giant Roche acquired Stratos Genomics, a Seattle DNA sequencing startup. Founded in 2007, Stratos’ technology is called Sequencing… Read More

Contact tracing

Coronavirus contact tracing is ramping up, along with online training to fill the gap

The Washington State Department of Health is in the early stages of a massive effort to interview COVID-19 patients and… Read More

Review of thousands of COVID-19 cases suggests higher death risk with hydroxychloroquine

Update for 12:30 p.m. PT June 4: The study in The Lancet has been retracted by three of its authors… Read More

Thomas Lynch

Fred Hutch’s president says a new strain of virus research center is needed to fight future outbreaks

Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center already has dozens of scientists working on infectious diseases, including COVID-19 — but the… Read More

Good Therapeutics raises $11M to develop ‘context dependent’ protein drugs

Seattle biotech startup Good Therapeutics raised another $11 million to create “context dependent” protein drugs that act only when needed.… Read More

Jeff Bezos joins $76M round for secretive biotech startup led by Isilon co-founder, Stanford scientist

Parag Mallick spent more than 20 years studying the intersection of software engineering and life sciences to better understand predictive… Read More

Donald Trump

Trump says he’s taking hydroxychloroquine, a drug being tested in two studies at Univ. of Washington

President Donald Trump said today that he’s taking hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that’s being tested as a COVID-19 treatment at… Read More

David Veesler

Scientists say 17-year-old blood sample yields promising antibodies for COVID-19

The search for COVID-19 therapies has turned to an antibody that was first identified back in 2003, in a blood… Read More

Vaccine testing

Positive news about Seattle-tested coronavirus vaccine sends stock market sharply higher

Massachusetts-based Moderna’s share price — and the stock market as a whole — were lifted today by the company’s encouraging… Read More

Seattle and King County post lowest COVID-19 case and death counts in two months

Seattle and King County reported 420 new COVID-19 cases and 30 deaths during the past week, the lowest weekly totals… Read More

Microsoft and UnitedHealth Group app will quiz workers regularly to determine COVID-19 risk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=HnKokFBqrO0&feature=emb_title A new app from Microsoft and healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group will ask workers a series of questions to determine… Read More

Drug combination

UW Medicine ramps up study of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for COVID-19 treatment

One of the treatments that’s been talked up by President Donald Trump for COVID-19 — a combination of the antimalarial… Read More

Sample collection for SCAN

Coronavirus-tracking project backed by Bill Gates is put on hold due to FDA concerns

The organizers of the Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network, a virus-tracking project supported by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, say their efforts… Read More

UW Medicine testing station

Public health officials are putting out the call for broader coronavirus testing

Washington state public health officials have broadened their guidance to say that anyone who has COVID-19 symptoms, or has been… Read More

Atul Gawande steps down as CEO of Amazon’s health care venture with Berkshire and JPMorgan

Dr. Atul Gawande is stepping down as CEO of Haven Healthcare, a joint venture between Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire… Read More

Moderna mRNA vaccine development

After good results in Seattle, COVID-19 vaccine will face key trials this summer, Moderna CEO says

The coronavirus vaccine trial that started out in Seattle is progressing well enough to get onto Food and Drug Administration’s… Read More

Adaptive Biotech revenue rises 65% to $21M, loss widens amid big COVID-19 immune partnerships

Adaptive Biotechnologies, which is working with Microsoft and Amgen to fight COVID-19 using its technology for sequencing the human immune… Read More

Bill Gates says Gates Foundation ‘will end up spending a lot more’ to fight COVID-19

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “will end up spending a lot more” than the $305 million it has pledged… Read More

Public Health directive urges Seattle-area residents to wear face coverings in most public settings

A new directive from Public Health – Seattle & King County is strongly urging residents to wear face coverings when… Read More

SCCA and Fred Hutch

Bank of America gives $500,000 to Fred Hutch and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance for COVID-19 relief

Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and its clinical-care partner, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, are receiving a $500,000 grant from… Read More

Vaccine development

Disease experts say it’s time to join forces to make coronavirus vaccines

Unprecedented collaborations involving the biotech industry and government agencies are urgently needed to develop and produce the billions of doses… Read More

UW Medicine lab

Statistician argues that COVID-19 figures hint at ‘staggering number’ of deaths ahead

In a newly published study, a University of Washington researcher argues that the eventual death toll from COVID-19 could be… Read More

Seattle venture capitalist Dan Levitan teams with his brothers to fight COVID-19 with unique project

The last time Dan Levitan worked on a project with his two brothers, Richard and Robert, they were in high… Read More

Gates Foundation CEO: US and China should smooth over their ‘divide’ on coronavirus crisis

The CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is disappointed that the United States isn’t on the same page… Read More

Virus transmission map

Studies of coronavirus evolution stir up a controversy for scientists on social media

Is the coronavirus behind COVID-19 turning into a more insidious pathogen? Or are such claims overblown? A fast-moving debate over… Read More

COVID-19 death projection

New pandemic projection puts U.S. death toll at nearly 135,000, due to less social distancing

The latest projection from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Modeling and Evaluation says the coronavirus pandemic will claim… Read More

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